Douglas Fairbanks Jr. And Frank McHugh muster out of the Marines flying corps, hook up with Bette Davis, and starve. A series of events lead them to work for bootlegger Leo Carrillo.
There are movies that you don't enjoy as much as their excellence would call for. There are some tossed off and are an awful lot of fun. Miss Davis thought director Alfred Green's sense of humor was "infantile" and this was her worst movie; Fairbanks thought Miss Davis had no sense of humor (an assessment I agree with when it comes to performances). One big issue with this movie is the lack of a clear plotline, as the three bounce hither and yon, seemingly at random. That, however, seems right for me in the depths of the Depression. People were scrambling, grabbing at whatever came along, and at Warner Brothers, anyway, some movies reflected that. Wellman's WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD was a tragic version. This is a lighter one. With Claire Dodd, Harold Huber, Thomas Jackson, Leon Ames, and Walter Brennan.
There are movies that you don't enjoy as much as their excellence would call for. There are some tossed off and are an awful lot of fun. Miss Davis thought director Alfred Green's sense of humor was "infantile" and this was her worst movie; Fairbanks thought Miss Davis had no sense of humor (an assessment I agree with when it comes to performances). One big issue with this movie is the lack of a clear plotline, as the three bounce hither and yon, seemingly at random. That, however, seems right for me in the depths of the Depression. People were scrambling, grabbing at whatever came along, and at Warner Brothers, anyway, some movies reflected that. Wellman's WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD was a tragic version. This is a lighter one. With Claire Dodd, Harold Huber, Thomas Jackson, Leon Ames, and Walter Brennan.